Team Depot & Team Church....Equals A Great Team!

Yesterday at around 5pm I got the call! Home Depot has agreed to Team up with us in our efforts to serve the Howell Center as we restore their indoor therapy pool area, build some outdoor playground sets and clean up the outdoor play area with new mulch and plants. Team Depot as they call call themselves.....has agreed to send out volunteers to work with us and will also donate $10,000 worth of supplies! That is awesome!

In the last three months since we have gone public with our new name Team Church...we have had the opportunity to Team up with many public and religious organizations. People are coming out of the woodwork to Team up with us to do many great things in our own church and of course in the community. It has been amazing how people will offer to help us do creative and life changing things.....when they don't have the perception that we are a church that is only looking for what we can do to serve ourselves and get more people to sit in our seats on Sunday morning. We have always had this value....but our name is very unique and very open with what we are trying to do in our city, state, country and world! I believe that people in the community are looking for churches to reach out and make an impact that does not affect them and their bottom line or their Sunday morning count. When they find such churches.....they agree to serve along side in a way that radically changes our city in a way that only a church full of fully devoted followers of Christ can.

On May 16th hundreds of volunteers from Team Church and Team Depot will join together and help make these special people have a better place to call home and a place to swim and play! When we are complete that day it is estimated that we will have provided the Howell Center with things that would have cost them about $350,000 to have done professionally! Beyond Home Depot we are receiving supplies and labor from Meridian Homes, England Custom Homes, Kurt Wood, Jeff Ross Plumbing and a few others who attend Team Church that are freely giving of their special talents in such areas!

Team Church.....new name, an old concept of what the Bible says the church is about, a proven strategy of how things get DONE WELL! Team WORK!

Here is one of my favorite stories in the Bible of Team Work!


"Sanballat was very angry when he learned that we were rebuilding the wall. He flew into a rage and mocked the Jews, saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”

Tobiah the Ammonite, who was standing beside him, remarked, “That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!”

Then as I looked over the situation, I called together the nobles and the rest of the people and said to them, “Don’t be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord, who is great and glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes!

When our enemies heard that we knew of their plans and that God had frustrated them, we all returned to our work on the wall. But from then on, only half my men worked while the other half stood guard with spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. The leaders stationed themselves behind the people of Judah who were building the wall. The laborers carried on their work with one hand supporting their load and one hand holding a weapon. All the builders had a sword belted to their side. The trumpeter stayed with me to sound the alarm.

Then I explained to the nobles and officials and all the people, The work is very spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. When you hear the blast of the trumpet, rush to wherever it is sounding. Then our God will fight for us!

We worked early and late, from sunrise to sunset. And half the men were always on guard. I also told everyone living outside the walls to stay in Jerusalem. That way they and their servants could help with guard duty at night and work during the day. During this time, none of us—not I, nor my relatives, nor my servants, nor the guards who were with me—ever took off our clothes. We carried our weapons with us at all times, even when we went for water.

Nehemiah Chapter 4